I'm with ^. We use Postgres in association with dynamic location data and haven't had any major issues. We haven't integrated PostGIS, but have definitely contemplated it, as it would make many of our queries an order of magnitude easier to write and (at least from what I hear) wouldn't compromise on speed when post query filtering is also accounted for. The only reason we haven't done it is that we haven't had the time and budget to make sure it was bullet proof, and we've been able to make do without the finer control offered by PostGIS. I believe another project in my office has been using PostGIS, and as far as I can tell, it's been paying off for them. While we're generally happy with a flat earth NW to SE bounding box, this other project needs much finer control for determining if a point is within an area.

Main desktop
HTPC
Minecraft/FTP server
Drobo FS
PS3
XBox 360
iPad
Android phone
IPTV Settop box (Doesn't really count, cause its got a 10/8 IP back to my ISP)
8 port gigabit ethernet switch (again, I don't really count it cause I don't interact with it directly)

That's 8 + 2.

The only computer I can really say I've lost was an Intel P4 from when I started University. One Thanksgiving after graduating, the fan on the Radeon 9800 went, causing the card to overheat and fail, taking the motherboard with it. She was a good little secondary machine, filling the roles of mythbuntu machine and server machine well while she was alive.

The projected track puts Irene about 500km (300 miles) to the northwest of me, so I'll get lots of wind, lots of rain, but no serious storm surge here. Also, it'll have been downgraded to below hurricane strength half a day to a day before it hits here. The worst that'll happen here is loss of power or water coming in through my crappy window sills.

From the wiki:

What should be done and what is done are two completely different things. The only real requirements for storing Restricted documents is that they be stored in "secured areas". I work for a defence contractor. If I have physical possession of Restricted documents (I don't, and I rarely would), I would only need to place them in my desk drawer at the end of the day since the office meets the requirements to store material that's classified higher than that. They don't need to be in a safe, or even in a locked filing cabinet. Consider that (at least in Canada), an Access to Information request can get you many restricted documents (albeit usually with an attached NDA), and you see that Restricted documents aren't all that special.

Actually, my cell coverage is pretty darn good, for someone "out east". It's piss poor inside my office, but that's to be expected. Otherwise, I have a full 3G connection between where I live, and where I spend my weekends in the summer weekends several hours away. Okay, that's a bit of a lie, as the 3G will sometimes drop out on the road, but I can't complain about the coverage here.

How about we wait to calculate the next closest approach until after it's left Earth's gravity well. I know our understanding of spatial dynamics is pretty much complete (between Newton and Kepler, we have almost all the knowledge we need), but we've only known about this thing for, what, 3 days? Also, there's the whole "Orbital predictions indicate that its flight path will be significantly altered by this close approach" thing, which tells me we aren't 100% sure which way this thing will be leaving our neighbourhood. I don't want to be thinking that we won't be seeing this thing until 2022 when it comes a knocking in 2020.

Ben Heck was the first name that came to my mind. He may even be able to improve on the design. No offense to Mr. Yankelevitz, but Ben Heck's controllers, even the prototypes, have a fit and finish that I don't quite see in Ken's work.

I have to agree with this. The vast majority of Windows laptops are cheap POSs. The hardware in a 2008 MacBook is still just as good as most sub $1000 laptops, and hardware headaches are less likely.